I’ve noticed the Mazda ads in the bus shelters the past few days. “Be moved like never before” they cajole, offering me a level of transcendence usually reserved for love or religion. The TV ad has been around since mid-2017 and features a series of dancers, floating around the new Mazda CX-3. Visually stunning. And […]
It’s not often that the progressive and conservative side of life could raise voice in unison against an institution, but QANTAS is certainly giving them the opportunity. After years of big business being the bete noir of the Left for the manner in which it treats its workers; outsourcing, downsizing, sending jobs (and profits) overseas, […]
What do the Sex Pistols and the Bible have in common? They’ve both been subjected to government bans. In 1977 The Sex Pistols released their version of God Save The Queen, in ironic and chaotic celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the British sovereign. The BBC decided to ban it. The song went to #1. […]
The courage to be counter-intuitive is rare, but necessary. And increasingly rare, and therefore increasingly necessary in this brittle, brutal media-saturated world. This struck me listening to Jordan Peterson (him again!) on Richard Fidler’s excellent ABC Conversations program, a podcast that has three million subscribers. Three million subscribers. Think about that. Three million subscribers listening […]
Sorry Facebook, it’s not me baby, it’s you. Lots of people have fallen out of like with Facebook over the years, but when it’s the other way around, it stings a little. So, Facebook, I’m starting to fall out of like with you – fast falling out of like with you actually – because you’ve […]
Fake news is not a new thing. Consider this: Abraham Lincoln was a woman! That John Wilkes Booth sure took things to extremes. Or what about Tupac? Quite why that bad boy would settle for NZ when Sydney is just across the water is beyond me. But it proves fake news is not a new thing. […]
Constantinople, unlike the ancient Roman pagan cities, had no arena. It’s something Peter Leithart points out to those who blithely say “Oh it’s the end of Christendom, and thats a good thing. All that expectation that everyone was Christian, blah, blah, blah”. That’s a cheap and cheerful and less than academic response to Christendom. However […]
And Jesus said, “If anyone would be my follower, he must click “like” and follow me. It’s that time of the year again. The time of the year when Facebook memes about Easter start popping up. I was particularly taken with the meme with rather kitsch 1950s Norman Rockwell feel to it, of Jesus struggling […]
Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?” Of all of the passages describing what the religious leaders and their crowd did to Jesus before his crucifixion, it’s the verses above that get to me the most. The description […]
The Australian cricket team is dead to me. Shouty, potty mouthed Dave Warner and his antics looks tame at the moment. In these crazy topsy turvy times, when who’s to know what’s right and wrong, tampering with the cricket ball to give your out-played team an advantage is black and white wrong. Whoever put opener […]
